Help please! 2day old chick can’t stay balanced

[won023]

Hi everyone I’ve just had a silkie chick hatch 2 days ago and it has been very unsteady since hatch and has not gotten better even after two days the chick is currently under a heated brooder plate but cannot seem to walk in a straight direction or walk/stand at all without falling to one side. Apart from that the chick is very vocal and tries relentlessly to get up after it falls I have tried giving some water and now some nutri drops and vitamin e with selenium but so far the chick still has no balance can anyone please help?

 

[Wezdin]

Is her head twisted like wry neck at all? that can be pretty common in silkies.

 

[Riche Bronson]

Hi everyone I’ve just had a silkie chick hatch 2 days ago and it has been very unsteady since hatch and has not gotten better even after two days the chick is currently under a heated brooder plate but cannot seem to walk in a straight direction or walk/stand at all without falling to one side. Apart from that the chick is very vocal and tries relentlessly to get up after it falls I have tried giving some water and now some nutri drops and vitamin e with selenium but so far the chick still has no balance can anyone please help?

Try an infant (human) vitamin (available in the baby section at Walmart) called Poly Vi Sol **WITHOUT** iron (that part is very important!). Put a couple drops... not a droppers full- just a drip or two in one boiled egg yolk. Smash it up and feed it to her as often as she’ll eat it. She (he I don’t know, lol) probably won’t eat an entire yolk at a time for a while, so just cover refrigerate the leftovers (plastic baggie works great to keep it moist). You can add a couple drops of water to it if it gets too dried out.
I had a little English bantam chick with the same issues, she couldn’t balance, kept falling over (I read that lacking vitamin E is often the culprit there) but she also had pasty butt which is a whole other issue. After much research this is what I came up with for her (along with unsticking her vent a couple times a day) and it worked great. Took about 2 weeks of pampering for her to fully recover, but soon (before she was all the way normal) she was up running around with the rest of the chicks healthy as can be. Worth a shot! Cheap and easy.. just takes a little time.

 

[won023]

Is her head twisted like wry neck at all? that can be pretty common in silkies.

the neck is fine and the feet are formed normally

 

[won023]

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Try an infant (human) vitamin (available in the baby section at Walmart) called Poly Vi Sol **WITHOUT** iron (that part is very important!). Put a couple drops... not a droppers full- just a drip or two in one boiled egg yolk. Smash it up and feed it to her as often as she’ll eat it. She (he I don’t know, lol) probably won’t eat an entire yolk at a time for a while, so just cover refrigerate the leftovers (plastic baggie works great to keep it moist). You can add a couple drops of water to it if it gets too dried out.
I had a little English bantam chick with the same issues, she couldn’t balance, kept falling over (I read that lacking vitamin E is often the culprit there) but she also had pasty butt which is a whole other issue. After much research this is what I came up with for her (along with unsticking her vent a couple times a day) and it worked great. Took about 2 weeks of pampering for her to fully recover, but soon (before she was all the way normal) she was up running around with the rest of the chicks healthy as can be. Worth a shot! Cheap and easy.. just takes a little time.

thanks for the help i will try this and hope the little one recovers

 

[Riche Bronson]

Best of luck to you... and the tiny little life.

 

[chickens really]

Possibly still absorbing its yolk..I had one that took days to get going..Best thing is to just let it be and give it some time..

 

[won023]

Possibly still absorbing its yolk..I had one that took days to get going..Best thing is to just let it be and give it some time..

I hope it’s just that it just seems like it favours to fall on the side it tries to walk very wobbilily and then falls to the side immediately

 

[chickens really]

I hope it’s just that it just seems like it favours to fall on the side it tries to walk very wobbilily and then falls to the side immediately

Poor little thing...Actually sugar water helps. Honey or corn syrup a few dips of his beak might help...

 

[won023]

Poor little thing...Actually sugar water helps. Honey or corn syrup a few dips of his beak might help...

I’ll do that now I’ve given the little one some nutri drops too still no improvement